Re: GPL-incompatible Module Error Message

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Apr 19 2007 - 20:49:57 EST


Chris Bergeron <chris@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> Building the fglrx module against the current Linux kernel (2.6.20.7
> as of this e-mail) I'm getting an error:
>
> FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module fglrx.ko uses GPL-only symbol
> 'paravirt_ops'
>

It should probably be available for non GPL modules too. Otherwise
they can't even disable interrupts, which seems a bit extreme.
I will change that in my tree.

-Andi
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